Some Queensland teachers have been threatened with Code of Conduct procedures if they fail to implement the new Australian curriculum materials in their entirety.

Some Queensland teachers have been advised that the new Australian curriculum materials can be adapted to suit their students.

Other teachers have been advised by their principals that they have to implement the materials as provided in their entirety and that to refuse to do so (or modify them) they would be subject to Code of Conduct procedures.

One Brisbane teacher comments: The difference between what teachers are told in public (that C2C is optional) and what their principals make clear to them is going to happen (you are teaching it) can be worlds apart.

Queensland principals felt unfairly "threatened" in 2010. Their managers ordered them to lift school NAPLAN results "at all costs".

Queensland Association of State School Principals president Norm Hart said the message relayed by some Education Queensland officials in 2010 was : "Our jobs are on the line, so your jobs are on the line. Lift the NAPLAN results or else".

Norm Hart said an isolated number of principals in Queensland had "reported feeling uncomfortable or threatened by the way the message was relayed to them."

Education Queensland Director-General Julie Grantham and Education Minister Geoff Wilson said the department opposed any forms of bullying against staff.